Critique this t-shirt design: "Thirsty Koala "

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EricDiaz
on Feb 21 '10

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EricDiaz on Feb 21 '10

These pretzels, are making me thirsty!!

EricDiaz on Feb 21 '10

pretzels are the new eucalyptus

3Bee on Feb 21 '10

Cool illustration. You obviously have some drafting skills, this is clear and reads clearly, but I have to admit I don't really get it, other than that a koala ate pretzles and now he's thirsty, as one might expect.

I really like surreal humor and nonsequiters, but I can't tell if this is trying to be that or not. If its just funny because the idea of a koala even having a pretzel is funny, I think it would be funnier if the koala almost looked photo real, because the humor depends on the disconnect between a real wild koala having pretzles. If you want to go surreal, push it. Make the whole image really strange.

One of the funniest single images I think I've ever seen was a realistic illustration of a tiger firing a machine gun in the air. The idea of a tiger having a machine gun was funny enough, and they both looked real enough that the image was just absurd. I feel like that's the route you're going, I could be way off, just my thoughts.

I'd like to have yours too!

Rockabirdy

Thanks!

torkuy on Feb 21 '10

I really like it, just work a little bit on the letters, i dont like the font

Would critique mine?

http://www.threadless.com/critique/62519/Foot_Poker

EricDiaz on Feb 21 '10

haha! thanks so much for the crits, i didn't think everyone was going to get this. But it's nice to see that this could be off-the-wall enough to stand alone.

The whole idea is based off of a

Blue Dino on Feb 21 '10

Awesome looking Koala! I would almost like it more without the caption. The strangeness of a Koala Bear cradling a bowl of pretzels and staring right at you is amazing.

EricDiaz on Feb 21 '10

Thanks! I'm going to redo the type but it is definitely going to be on the tee.

EricDiaz on Feb 22 '10

hmm, maybe i can integrate the type into the branch...